This is my DT card, I hope you will check out my other teamies fab creations.

I've used a die cut shutter card from Whichcraftuk and double sided dp by Magenta 'shades of the season' collection also available from whichcraftuk.
Stamps are:
Edwin with glasses... I added glossy accents to his glasses.
Valentine Tilda and Books all by Magnolia and coloured with copics.
I pieced Tilda's dress and stamped onto the paper for the books, then shaded with a coloured pencil.
The letters and numbers were cut on my Cricut with George cartridge.
I made a blackboard, (although these are a bit old fashioned now) and doodled with a white gel pen.
A bit more doodling with a pencil and a couple of bows from my stash.
A bright a cheery card to wish a fabulous year at school,
My grandson starts full time reception class next week, don't they grow fast.

Friday, 27 August 2010

It's time for another challenge over at Teddy Stampers
We have a delish sketch from our lovely Jerusha for you to have fun with for this fortnight.
Our generous sponsor is Die Cut Dreams

This is my DT card

Isn't this 'Bear with Flowers' just so cute it's got such a gorgeous face,
from Crafty Sentiments
Copics
Bear E000 E00 R20 R00
Basket E35 E51
Green G20 YG95
Roses R20 R22
Shadow BG10
Gold stardust too, then cut it out with nesty labels 4. I cut around to make a thinner border.
The double sided paper is Morning Meadow by S.E.I and bashful blue cardstock from Stampin' Up.
Sentiment is from the Sincere Salutations also from SU which I stamped in Versafine sepia.
Martha Stewart doyle punch and a border embossing folder.Taking about embossing folders check out the new ones from Docrafts by Papermania. Some great christmas ones and a snip at £2.99. The one I got had 4 christmas borders in.The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, and pearls are 3mm 'wedding day' set from The Hobbyhouse Crafts.

I won't be around this weekend going to have fun with Captain Croc lol.
We're taking our grandchildren to Pontins for the bank hol,
will catch up with you all early next week. xx

Thanks for stopping by and for all your fabulous comments
Whatever you are doing this weekend ENJOY!!!

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Welcome to my lovely new followers thank you so much for joining us, i'll drop in and say hello very soon, hope we can inspire each other.
There's been gremlins in the system today problems with internet links so I hope it works
'just let me get this post done pleeeeease'

I had so much fun with this card I haven't done heat embossing for ages.... I used gold detail embossing powder on the bauble and sentiment. I stamped her apron again and decoupaged it, after colouring her with copics.
It's rekindled my love for it, so watch this space for some more.

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

WOW what a response to our challenge at Creative Card Crew
461 gorgeous creations...thank you all it was amazing to visit so many of your fab blogs.
We hope you will play along again for this fortnights challenge...

* SPARKLE AND SHINE *
We would love to see lots of sparkle and shine on your creations... should be no problem at all!!!
Our sponsor for this challenge is The Digi Shack

The team got to play with some great digi images I chose this one called 'floral sillhouette',
and made a fabulous purse box, you can get a template here at Mels blog, thank you for a brilliant
tutorial.
I printed out the template on as heavy card as my printer would take then cut out all the pieces, really easy to do.
The paper is from craftwork cards and is pearlised so it's shiny.
The silver flap is a piece of glitter card, you know the type that covers you and everything else in glitter.
I thought the image looked a bit like a cameo and would look lovely in an oval. The beauty of digi images you can print them any size. I Cut 2 plain and 1 scallop oval nestabilities, the base one is glitter card. For even more sparkle I added Swarovski Crystals to her hair.

The inside paper is actually paler than in the photo. More glitter card to the handle and peel offs.
flowers are made with retro flower punches from Bevs tutorial here
gorgeous satin ribbon from Hobby craft and the black from stash.
So get out your sparkley bits, glitter and bling and let your creations shine.

Friday, 13 August 2010

Welcome to my lovely new followers thank you for joining us... looking forward to visiting you, to share some inspiration and love.
You might need a cuppa with his post!!!
I've missed visiting you, and will catch up with you all this weekend, put the kettle on!!!

Your creations for our last Teddy Stampers Challenge were amazing, thank you so much
I hope you'll have fun with this one, you won't be able to stop singing!!!!

TEDDY BEARS PICNIC

There you go you're singing already lol...so you can let your imagination run wild (I did)
as long as you have a stamped or digi stamp bear on and have fun.

Thursday, 5 August 2010

I've always felt that compared to all the gorgeous creations we see with Tilda as the star...
that poor Edwin doesn't get much of a showing.

Well I came across another challenge blog for stampers who love Tilda and EdwinMagnolia Stamp Lovers who are show casing Edwin for this challenge, so I had to join in.

I made a step card and added a die cut circle. After embossing with cuttlebug swirls I sanded the blue cardstock to show the white core for a wave effect.
The sky was done with chalk and the ship is a die cut in Magnolia pirate paper.
I tore some sand coloured paper and inked the edges with distressing ink.
Pirate Edwin, barrel and skull were coloured with copics.
'Ahoy' sentiment is from pirate stamp set and 'Happy Birthday' from DIY set both by Woodware.
I inked them while the nestability was still on.

Hi, this started out as a quick post this morning and i've only just had time to get back.
School hols...looking after my grandchildren...you know how it is!!!

This is one of the samples I made for whichcraftuk using one of Paula's die cut step cards,
and thought it fitted the bill for theTotally Tilda challenge which is to make a shaped card...no square, rectangle or easel cards.

Tuesday, 3 August 2010

Hi everyone don't know if you've noticed i've got a new badge on my side bar,
Yes whoo hoo!!!... I made the design team i'm still in shock, so this is my first creation for this hugely popular challenge blog.
Thank you girls for choosing me to join your wonderful team.

We would like to see something CUTE AND GIRLIE please... easy peasy.

Our generous sponsor for this challenge is Meljens Designs the team got to play with some of Melissa's cute images. I did consider stepping out of my comfort zone and choosing an image that I hadn't coloured before but as time was short I thought i'd better play safe, so sorry i'ts got a gorgeous teddy on again.
It's my goal for August to use some of my stamps that haven't been inked and are gathering dust lol!!

This image is 'little girl bear hugs' which I coloured with copics.
I'm not sure of the correct title for this box with 4 draws thingy but i've wanted to make one for ages just hadn't got around to it.
I used a template for the match box draw part from Whichcraftuk and there's a tutorial here by Kirsten.
DP is 'Rose Garden' by Papermania which includes 3 die-cut sheets of tags, borders, icons and alphabets.
I hate covering up gorgeous paper with more layers, so I made a smaller easel card to go on the top.
Cut with the blossom nesty in bazzil bling, pearl brads fromThe Hobby House
and ribbon from The Ribbon Box

For more inspiration check out the rest of this fabulous crew.
I hope you'll play along, so we can visit you, can't wait to see what you create!!!

About Me

Welcome to my blog and thanks for stopping by.
I'm married to Rob and have two wonderful daughters and three scrumptious grandchildren.
My sister is my best friend and we love to get together and craft.
I adore stamping, beautiful papers that are just too nice to use. I like cute, girly, teddies, children and floral stamps.
I hope that I will be able to inspire others as I have been inspired by looking at so many of your beautiful blogs.
If you like what you see please leave a comment it would make my day.x